Can You Trace It? A Mock Recall for Food Distributors and Manufacturers

A supplier calls: one of your ingredients may be contaminated. The clock starts now. Do you know which lots you received, where they went, which finished products they ended up in, and which customers need to be notified? And can you prove it in hours, not days?

For food distributors and manufacturers, a recall is no longer a question of if but when. Customers, retailers, and regulators expect fast, accurate answers, and under the FDA’s FSMA 204 Food Traceability Rule, covered businesses must be able to provide traceability records within 24 hours of a request.

Slow or incomplete traceability puts more than product at risk. It puts your customer relationships, your brand, and your business on the line.

In this session, we’ll run a live mock recall from start to finish. Beginning with a single suspect lot, we’ll trace it backward to the supplier and forward through production, warehousing, and shipping to every affected customer, showing exactly what a fast, confident response looks like and where most companies get stuck.